Perspective

Much of the appeal of pinhole images for me resides in the great depth of field afforded by the small aperture of the pinhole.  The novelty of the images thus produced is due to the fact that our eyes do not have the capacity to maintain sharp focus fron inches to miles in a single glance.  Images of that character can be produced by sophisticated lens design and at great expense, but the direct simplicity of the pinhole yields unassailable authenticity.